Originally Posted by Jakez

I've had first page spots for these keywords for probably almost 2 years, been doing some tweaking to the site like adding image titles/alts and placing new banners here and there while at the same time I signed up to linkspun and have been trading hardlinks within the niche, I've put up 13 links out and gotten 14 links in so far.

Suddenly I am dropping down in the SE rankings and off first page listings. Could the linkspun trading have caused this or is it more likely some bad change I did to the site?